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Did anyone else completely miss the aerial tram coming out of the post office? I did until just now. They looked like little flying taxis at first. But no, totally a tram with no visible support system.

I quite like that idea!

Too bad Friedensreich Hundertwasser is dead. We could have him dress up our garbage burner like he did a power plant in Vienna.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Müllverbre ... _Spittelau
(sorry, in Deutsch, which I can't read either)

I tend to agree with respect to the latern-style lights. My wife and I own a home on the east side of 35W not too far from Minnehaha Creek. Our neighborhood has the latern-style lights and we love it. We're never scared to walk in the dark because there are enough lights (and enough light) to make i...

Looking at the various renderings at http://www.startribune.com/local/blogs/190396381.html and I have to ask, where the hell is the fourth one supposed to be?

I can't figure it out either, and not just because of the palm trees. There are no streams like that anywhere near Hennepin Ave.

Anyone have good coding/html/php/css skills and able to help out with pulling the code for the "Latest unread post" from the old theme and adding it to the new theme. I just tried and failed quite a few times. Suggestions or help in this case would be appreciated! It's been quite a while ...

Up at the other end of 494, MNDot has a "plan." And yes, the Strib comments section is exactly as fun—already—as you would expect it to be.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that guy is going to get a lot taller over the next several months, no?

Bounded by the 494-694 beltway on the north, east, and south and MN100 on the west, roughly speaking. That's a fairly sizable amount of land, all things considered. I wonder how often they'll update. We've got a lot of holes in the ground that'll be much taller in a year.

I don't know when this happened, but Apple updated their maps of MPLS and now we have the 3D view. Kick ass. [thumbnail]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/16815944/DowntownMPLS-AppleMaps3D.png[/thumbnail] Judging by the state of some exterior home improvements projects, the photos of my neighborhood were take...

...really too stupid...?

Yes. The answer is always "yes."

*sigh*

I was hoping to see it get to Diamond Lake Road with stops at 50th and the Parkway, but that long bridge might be a cost-prohibitive problem.

As is my map. This does make a lot more sense than trying to swap 4th and the LRT. And you gotta dig that bikeway connection from the U to DTE. Edit 1: didn't realize the [thumbnail] BBCode went away. Click to enlarge: Version 3 Edit 2: Obviously, Froggie's version of this map is better. Just updati...

That makes a ton of sense. No moving of LRT tracks/bridges and no removal of buildings. I like it.

Just a little levity on this lazy Sunday...

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There's a tunnel, but it's blocked off. Landscaped and everything.

So instead of getting work done this morning, I decided to entertain my fetish for modified Google Maps and take this little road/street redo beyond the 10th Ave boundary of my first whack posted above. Here's a quick hit-list of the tweakages, or just skip down to the images. 3rd/4th Street viaduct...

(in the vision of a fetishized google map)

::turns down the lights::
::fires up Photoshop::

This might be crazy, but what if 5th and 4th just ran under the new stadium? What you have drawn as 4th now is just accessed from Washington and the N/S streets? Maybe it's just not even feasible, but if we're tearing out the area why not make everything line up and go right under? Then you'd get c...

For the life of me I cannot tell from those site plans if they plan to keep any of the existing structure. I drive past it semi-regularly to get to LA Fitness and they've really fixed things up lately. The glass has been cleaned and repaired and it almost looks like they're planning to reuse it. But...